Two archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 12 shown for “Roundel with Christ Condemned by Pilate” — 40 records examined, 1 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:25 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.The Metropolitan Museum of Art: HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. Results from the remaining archive are shown unchanged — nothing is substituted for a source that did not answer.

Christ before Pilate, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

Christ Before Pilate, from series The Passion of Christ
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1480

Three Stages of the Passion: The Mockery, Christ before Pilate, Flagellation
Francesco Coghetti, Italian, 1804 - 1875 · ca. 1848

Christ Before Pilate: The Large Plate
Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, Dutch, 1606–1669 · 1636

Pilate Washing His Hands, from The Little Passion Series
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1509–1511

Christ before Pilate
Unidentified (Italian) · 16th-17th century

A scene from the Passion of Christ (Christ before Pilate)
Cesare Nebbia, Italian, ca. 1536 - 1614 · late 16th century

Pilate Washes His Hands
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century

Wall tile
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
![Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?], by Unknown, Italian](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fids.si.edu%2Fids%2Fdownload%3Fid%3DCHSDM-8CEE466C0AF22-000001.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Altar Dedicated to a Virgin Martyr [St. Lucy?]
Unknown, Italian · early 19th century

Ecce Homo
Artist not stated in the record · 1840s
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. HTTP 403 from collectionapi.metmuseum.org. No records from this archive are shown for this query.Unavailable - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 693947 matched · 40 examined · 1 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 21:25 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.